Subj : system.exec() and commands in double-quotes
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Apr 11 2025 12:20:47

  Re: system.exec() and commands in double-quotes
  By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Apr 10 2025 05:14 pm

 DM> Okay, so no "escaped quotes" are actually being passed to system(). I was
 DM> confused by your reply to phigan.

Maybe I'm not understanding what you mean by escaped quotes..  I escaped the double-quotes in the string with the command because I used double-quotes for the whole thing.

 DM> The end result (passed to system()) looks like it would be:

 DM> ""C:\Program Files\Path\To\Program" some-arg "some-arg""

 DM> That's pretty weird.

Yeah, it's weird but it looks like that's what's working on Windows.

 DM> One nice thing about JavaScript is you don't have to escape the
 DM> double-quotes if you inclose the string in single-quotes. So could
 DM> probably get away without escaping anything.

I sometimes forget you can use single-quotes for strings in JS.

Nightfox

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